Just got laid off from TechCrunch — If you're hiring for a reporter / editor with experience across tech, culture, science and transportation, lmk! email is [email protected]

Along with these amazing coworkers, I was also laid off after 12 years at TechCrunch. I am looking for jobs I can do in Taipei, or remotely. I’m available for journalism and PR/comms work.

TechCrunch laid off some amazing people today (I think I'm amazing). Please hire these people asap.

1. Managing editors
Darrell Etherington and Matt Burns (me)

3. Internet culture reporter
morgan sung from rat.house

3. Climate reporter
Harri 🏳️‍⚧️

“Ban remote learning. Ban any learning. Ban anything that makes me think too hard. Ban any thought at all.” In The New Yorker Humor, Sean Lavery adds some items to the ban lists. nyer.cm/KGnNWDp

So The Cure and ROBERT SMITH wanted to keep ticket prices at a reasonable level for fans on their upcoming North American tour dates. Of course Ticketmaster absolutely rinsed them with ridiculous extra charges

wtf even is a service fee or a facility charge or processing fee??

'If ChatGPT is the iPhone, we’re seeing a lot of calculator apps,' Bain Capital's Christina Melas-Kyriazi tells George Hammond of the current crop of AI startups. 'We’re looking for Uber.'

He's in for a disappointment.

Difference between US and UK documentaries.

Every day I wonder: Who are the people hiring publicists to send me emails about their new air purifier, their expert advice, their political opinions? So one day I decided to find out. slate.com/human-interest…

So many people responded to my last post, that I created a form for Black founders to — anonymously or not — submit the good, the bad, and the ugly stories of their fundraising experiences.

Transparency is essential to accountability. Let's start here!

techcrunch.com/2022/10/24/tec…

The incredible TechCrunch team

If you're on the look out for a new (non-Kindle) e-reader, I recommend Kobo's new Clara 2E. Really dinky, compact, and a great screen.

There are price increases and then there are price increases. I'm happy to support products that I like, but tripling a subscription is not the best way to keep subscribers.

Interesting new-ish company out of Germany, but focusing largely on the U.S. market -- it basically wants to help any company become a mobile network operator, so they can bundle data/SMS/voice plans as part of their own products and services: techcrunch.com/2022/09/21/a-s…

The more I speak with other parents, the more I'm convinced there is a decent market for a consumer-friendly, Google-free Android phone. Someone needs to build it.

Cut it up: how scissor statements divide us on Social Warming by Charles Arthur socialwarming.substack.com/p/cut-it-up-ho…

'Absurd' doesn't even come close.

Crypto.com sues an Australian woman after erroneously sending her $10.5M in May 2021 after she requested a $100 refund; the woman allegedly purchased a house (@mdisalvojourno / Decrypt)

decrypt.co/108586/crypto-…
techmeme.com/220831/p5#a220…

I took a look at W4 Games, an Ireland-based startup that recently launched to commercialize the open-source Godot Engine game engine. techcrunch.com/2022/08/19/how…